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Alaska eagles
Posted on 6/14/13 at 6:33 pm
Posted on 6/14/13 at 6:33 pm
So I'm in Alaka this week on a cruise. We have seen Eagles every day, biking, kayaking and on the salmon fishing day dozens of them were around the whole time. (No salmon caught). How can they be so common up here and so rare in Louisiana?
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Posted on 6/14/13 at 6:38 pm to dat yat
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so rare in Louisiana?
they're not all that rare, i see them once a week it seems
Posted on 6/14/13 at 6:40 pm to dat yat
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So I'm in Alaka this week on a cruise. We have seen Eagles every day, biking, kayaking and on the salmon fishing day dozens of them were around the whole time. (No salmon caught). How can they be so common up here and so rare in Louisiana?
You picked a fine week for it. Weather is awesome. Eagles are nothing right now, wait til the big salmon runs in late July. You'll see hundreds lined up beside a stream.
To answer, basically nature in balance here. It wasn't always that way, there was a bounty on them decades ago but there are 30k in Southeast.
This post was edited on 6/14/13 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 6/14/13 at 6:46 pm to KingRanch
I live on the water here in SELA and sea a couple a year, never see them in the NF in SEMS. In AK, they are almost as common as common as pelicans.
In for hours of fishing we were almost never in out of sight of one. Several times we were seeing half a dozen at a time.
I ill admit there wer dead halibut on the shore line in a few locations, but still they have tons of them up here.
They are beautifull. I got an iPhone shot of one diving and can't figure out how to post.
In for hours of fishing we were almost never in out of sight of one. Several times we were seeing half a dozen at a time.
I ill admit there wer dead halibut on the shore line in a few locations, but still they have tons of them up here.
They are beautifull. I got an iPhone shot of one diving and can't figure out how to post.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 6:52 pm to dat yat
Where are you fishing out of?
Posted on 6/14/13 at 6:57 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Shrubber,
You live in a fine place. I think I could live here in the summer!
We hit Juneau, Sitka and Ketchican and they were all awesome.
The salmon guide, because fishing was slow, told deer hunting stories. Islands, boats, bears...it's different up here than in LA or MS.
You live in a fine place. I think I could live here in the summer!
We hit Juneau, Sitka and Ketchican and they were all awesome.
The salmon guide, because fishing was slow, told deer hunting stories. Islands, boats, bears...it's different up here than in LA or MS.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:06 pm to dat yat
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Juneau, Sitka
Sitka is awesome. I could live there if the winters weren't so mild, if that makes sense.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:09 pm to dat yat
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:40 pm to KingRanch
Agreed...not that rare. Used to see them around Napoleonville, Labadieville, Bayou L'Ourse and Paincourtville just 5 years ago. Basically all around Lake Veret.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:44 pm to DonChowder
That's where I see them mostly. I see them a good bit around sorrento, Lutcher area too
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:45 pm to mctiger1985
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Nice. My wife has told me stories of them rootin' thru dumpsters in Ketchican back when she was sailing into that port. Maybe Ben Franklin was right and the Turkey should have been our National bird. 
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:50 pm to dat yat
I'm really enjoying this thread. 
Posted on 6/14/13 at 7:55 pm to DonChowder
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Nice. My wife has told me stories of them rootin' thru dumpsters in Ketchican back when she was sailing into that port. Maybe Ben Franklin was right and the Turkey should have been our National bird.
My office is about a mile from the landfill. That valley is obscenely filled with eagles.
They go nuts (like the bears) when the salmon run though. Here, it's about mid July to late August.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 8:07 pm to RogerTheShrubber
The fishing was out of Ketchican, Knudsen cove, by cloverleaf cove. I really didn't care that the fish were not hitting. We used down riggers trolling deep with one rod running shallow.
The sights were so cool I just enjoyed being there.
Now we're docking in a fancy Canadian place called Victoria, so I'm just planing to get drunk on Canadian Whisky.....
The sights were so cool I just enjoyed being there.
Now we're docking in a fancy Canadian place called Victoria, so I'm just planing to get drunk on Canadian Whisky.....
Posted on 6/14/13 at 8:09 pm to dat yat
Hope you had a good trip... Get to see any of Juneau?
Get to see any of Juneau?Posted on 6/14/13 at 8:09 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Well then, sounds like we'll be inundated with the white headed buzzards when I'm there this summer.
Hey datyat - report back on the cruise. I'm doing the same thing in late July.
Hey datyat - report back on the cruise. I'm doing the same thing in late July.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 8:23 pm to RogerTheShrubber
In Juneau we biked to the glacier, which led to an Alaskan beer tasting. APA is awesome!
Posted on 6/14/13 at 9:32 pm to dat yat
they are bums they represent america great they wait on someone else to hunt and the lazy bastards move in.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 9:57 pm to Cracker
In Kodiak, we called them "Bald Buzzards."
They were all over the place. Would just waddle along the sides of streams eating dead salmon during the runs.
In '89, US Fish & Wildlife Service was secretly shotgunning them for population control.
Flying around Kodiak, our pilots would aim for them in HH53s and UV-18s
They were all over the place. Would just waddle along the sides of streams eating dead salmon during the runs.
In '89, US Fish & Wildlife Service was secretly shotgunning them for population control.
Flying around Kodiak, our pilots would aim for them in HH53s and UV-18s
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